The Two South Africas: 10% Unemployment for Graduates, 40% for Everyone Else

Frans Cronje and Gabriel Makin discuss South Africa's dual employment economy.

5 min

If you have been to university in South Africa, unemployment in your cohort is about 10%. If you have not, it is at least 30 to 40%. Frans Cronje explains to Gabriel Makin why the economy has become a high-skilled, tertiary-sector economy that privileges graduates, why fewer than one in 10 pupils passing maths means schooling cannot fix it inside a generation, and why the only short-term fix is deep industrial investment, which the Constitutional Court's Shell ruling has just made harder.

Read the the report on which Frans's analysis is based here.

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